SOLAR SYSTEM

Detailed explanation-1: -Haumea is roughly the same size as Pluto . It is one of the fastest rotating large objects in our solar system. The fast spin distorts Haumea’s shape, making this dwarf planet look like a football.

Detailed explanation-2: -The shape of its orbit is fairly eccentric, or elongated, but not quite as much as the planet Mercury’s. Haumea’s orbit is also highly tilted, being inclined about 28 degrees relative to the plane in which the planets orbit. Haumea was at first known provisionally as 2003 EL61.

Detailed explanation-3: -Newer studies show that Eris likely is a spherical body. And, by studying the motion of Eris’ moon, Dysnomia (which was also discovered in 2005), they estimate the dwarf planet is about 27% heavier than Pluto, which means it’s denser than Pluto as well.

Detailed explanation-4: -Haumea is the egg-shaped, large object on the left. Over 100 are known.

Detailed explanation-5: -What makes Haumea so unique is its elongated, unusual shape, apart from your typical spherical dwarf planets – Ceres, Eris, Makemake, and Pluto. Haumea is distorted into a triaxial ellipsoid due to its fast rotations. Haumea was classified as a dwarf planet by the International Astronomical Union on September 17, 2008.